News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “One Way for an Indie Bookstore to Last? Put Women ‘First’” Chicago bookstore ‘Women… Read more »
I’ve signed up for the Clean out your E-reader Challenge hosted by Fantasy is More Fun and Because Reading is more fun. The focus of the challenge is ebook freebies, whether downloaded from a retailer like Amazon or received for review through NetGalley or Edelweiss. Pirated copies don’t count and… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: TechCrunch broke the news that Microsoft is considering offering $1 billion for Nook. The… Read more »
Worth Reading: Is Sherlock Holmes still under copyright? Leslie Klinger, Holmesian scholar and co-editor (with Laurie R. King) of the recent short-story collection, A Study in Sherlock, is suing the Conan Doyle estate. The estate recently demanded licensing fees be paid for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, an upcoming… Read more »
I’ve been through a bit of a dry spell in the past few weeks…For some reason I found it hard to get into stuff on my TBR pile, so I did a lot of re-reading of older books, not necessarily favorites but books I have enjoyed. Thankfully, I seem to… Read more »
Jessica Day George’s Princess of the Midnight Ball and Princess of Glass are both currently available for $1.99 or less, depending on the store. Books on Board has the lowest price, at $1.35 each. (So far, Sony’s Reader Store has not discounted either book, but they may match their competitors… Read more »
